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Dolt is a version controlled MySQL-compatible database, written from the ground up in Go. We're always working to close the remaining gap on full compatibility with MySQL. In this blog post, we're talking abou…

Dolt is the world's first SQL database that you can branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone just like a git repository. A lot of people, when they hear about this, say "that's really cool, but what …

Dolt started as a data sharing tool. Dolt is still a great data sharing tool as you can see from DoltHub Data Bounties where people around the world collaborate on building open databases. But as Dolt got m…

Dolt is the first fully version controlled relational database. Every Git command is exposed as a SQL function, allowing users to efficiently branch, diff, and merge tables. We recently added anti and sem…

Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt, which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. People have found many creative uses for Dolt, but there's one area that Dolt has yet …

Recently, I came across this Reddit post going over how they manage database versioning. I was particularly interested in this response Reddit Response To be fair it is really strong process for tracking…

A customer wanted to use Apache Superset to visualize Dolt databases. This customer runs DoltLab and intends to version hundreds of databases there. He wants a subset of those databases available to Superset f…

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database that you can branch, merge, and diff. Dolt stores data in a prolly tree to efficiently support these operations, which can come with write overhead and use a lot of…

Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database. Dolt uses Git semantics to branch and commit state checkpoints, and MySQL semantics to define, mutate, and access data. We've optimized a variety of perf…

Last June, I published a Getting Started: Version Controlled Database blog that quickly became Dolt's GitHub README. As I say in that blog: Dolt started as a data sharing tool, "Git for Data". Dolt's origin…

Imagine, for a moment, that both code and data were not constrained to the present. With a "standard" database, your data lives only in the present. Sure, with backups you're able to recall the past, but to …

On its face, it's hundreds of terabytes, millions of files, and trillions of negotiated rates between insurers and providers. But the health insurance data dump is probably smaller than it seems. Back in Ju…

Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. We spent the first part of 2022 working on our performance, in large part by re-writing the storage engine. In October, we were lucky e…

Beta release of ACID transactions in Dolt

Adding version control functionality to Retool apps

A survey of the data merge space. Data merge in not mail merge. New tools exists to merge two tables at scale. This is true data merge.

For those who are unfamiliar with Dolt, it is a version controlled SQL database. If you know what GitHub and MySQL are, you already know how to use Dolt! We have been improving our compatibility with MySQL eve…

A release of a new golang package for hashing generic types.

DoltDB is a MySQL-compatible database with Git's distributed versioning features. It's the first relational database that versions your data changes AND your schema changes. Today's blog post is a teaser for a…

It's 2022, and the version control wars are conclusively over. Everybody uses git, but hardly anybody really understands it, and even fewer truly love it. git is hard to use I think these last two poin…